Advertising Account Director

Job description / Role

• Assume primary responsibility for structuring and executing major operational initiatives: developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and developing final recommendations
• Work with media planners to interrogate client briefs, by challenging and asking questions, to develop communications briefs that meet business needs in an effective and accountable way.
• Define annual sales targets, associated operating plan and feedback into the annual company plan
• Monitor sales targets, assess any variance and propose corrective actions to meet company goals
• Direct the strategic development of creative work, presenting and selling this effectively to clients.
• Ensure the profitability and growth of client accounts.
• Identify, develop and convert new business opportunities with existing and future clients.
• Manage work, performance and professional development of team members.
• Report key financial and team data to senior leaders.
• Maintain a detailed awareness of relevant market trends affecting accounts, and developments in the wider advertising and communications industry.
• Manage day-to-day advertising operation and ad serving process
• Develop annual advertising calendar jointly with the product team and identify key events
• Establish a weekly and monthly reporting system for all campaigns performance
• Identify key target clients and define collaboration strategy
• Work closely with product and content team to identify new and creative idea for monetization

Requirements

• University Qualifications: Bachelor Degree / Master Degree in Sales & Marketing / Business Administration
• Nature and length of previous experience: 12+ Years Experience of Sales & Marketing in Advertising and Media
• Specialist knowledge: Sales / Marketing / Business Development
• Advertising & Media
• Soft Skills and Personality traits: Strong Leadership & People Management Skills
• Gender Preference: Male
• Nationality Preference: GCC National
• Language Fluency: English & Arabic

About the Company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.